VA opens first health center for trans veterans

By John Mack Freeman

The Department of Veterans Affairs opened its first health center specifically dedicated to transgender veterans and service members. The clinic opened in Cleveland this week, and received its first visitors on November 11th. There are approximately 134,000 trans veterans in the United States. Via Huffington Post:

Housed within the Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center in Ohio, the clinic will offer primary care services alongside hormonal therapy and mental health care. The VA center, which provides care to more than 112,000 people, is currently treating around two dozen transgender patients.

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